Here they are, I really can not decide which to choose, which would grant me more damage in the short run. Sycophants will spawn pretty often as my main damaging ability will be firebats, which is a physical realm spells.

Gruesome Feast also looks awesome, 10% int / globe, can stack up 5 times, if I keep my buff up with Harvest Soul that would mean, let's see... gazillion intellect which is nice to have.
Now, there will be lots of globes on the floor, so I will always get some nice intellect boost from them, but will I do more damage altogether than I would have with my little fetishes?

Gruesome feast also makes orbs provide mana, basically eliminating or really reducing downtime. Firebats is really really expensive to use, so it may be the better alternative, not only as you'd kill faster and thus save more mana, but also as you'd gain some back from orbs.

The reason why I am not definite about the Gruesome Feast is because when you kill a pack of mobs, you take the loot and health globes, and it takes about 10 sec to find an other group of monsters, right when your buff is gone

The reason why I am not definite about the Gruesome Feast is because when you kill a pack of mobs, you take the loot and health globes, and it takes about 10 sec to find an other group of monsters, right when your buff is gone

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I'd try to take globes mid-combat. Gruesome feast is probably much more useful against bosses for this reason; each globe probably resets the duration, so with 4-5 globes around, you could benefit from 10-50% for up to a minute.

Good question Horcsog about possible mana increase. I love to look at my temporary smartness when I hit soul harvest. There's nothing better than a spell that makes you a genius for 30 seconds and then returns you to dumb as rocks status lol. But I never noticed if my mana pool is increased.
Anyone know? If not I'll check it out this evening.

From what I understand, you are most likely to get a Sycophant per every 23 castings.

0,97 ^ 23 = ~50 %

For a half second attack that would be a fetish every 11,5 seconds.

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3% is equal to 1/33, so in the long run you can expect that every 33th attack provides a fetish on average. Just like you can expect to get 30 fetishes in 1000 attacks. Every 23 attacks you have a 50% chance to get one, but it means some 23 attacks you get one or more, and other 23 attacks you don't.

3% is equal to 1/33, so in the long run you can expect that every 33th attack provides a fetish on average. Just like you can expect to get 30 fetishes in 1000 attacks. Every 23 attacks you have a 50% chance to get one, but it means some 23 attacks you get one or more, and other 23 attacks you don't.

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Interesting. So by this logic a d6 pops one of the numbers approximately once every 6 throws. I can agree with that.

But this means you need quite a fast attack speed to keep a decent number of Sycophants summoned.